The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 95
The Smith did not see him, but he heard him buzzing, and supposed it was the honeybee with sweets from the meadow flowers.
Who acts: Smith, Water, temper · What happens: not see, hear, buzz, suppose, be · To what, where: Water, honeybee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, Water, temper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Smith | det |
| 2 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | obj |
| 12 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 heard | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 supposed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 supposed | cc |
| 15 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 honeybee | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 honeybee | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 honeybee | det |
| 19 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 supposed | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sweets | case |
| 21 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 honeybee | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 flowers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flowers | det |
| 24 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flowers | compound |
| 25 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sweets | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · do-support | the Smith | Water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Smith | Water | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | buzz | gerund | Water not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | suppose | past | Smith not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | temper | the honeybee | with sweets from the meadow flowers | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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